Joe Biden’s Kids Are ‘Urging’ Him to Not Give Up on His Re-election Campaign—Meet His 4 Children

Beau Biden

Joseph Robinette “Beau” Biden III was Joe Biden’s first child and son. He was born on February 3, 1969, to Joe’s first wife Neilia. He survived the car crash that killed his younger sister and mother. He went on to follow his father’s footsteps into law and became a University of Pennsylvania graduate, and earned a law degree from Syracuse University in 1994. He served as a law clerk for a federal judge in New Hampshire before working for the U.S. Department of Justice from 1995 until 2002, including five years as a federal prosecutor in Philadelphia. He joined the Army National Guard as a major in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps in 2003. In 2007, he was elected as the Delaware attorney general where he would serve the role until his death. He married his wife, Hallie Olivere. They had two kids, Natalie Biden and Robert Biden II.

Beau Biden died at the age of 46 after a battle with brain cancer. He sought medical treatment at a Houston cancer center in 2013 after feeling “weak and disoriented.” At the time, the vice president and White House refused to discuss his condition, but doctors later said Biden had undergone surgery to remove a small lesion from his brain. He died at the age of 46 at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. His father founded the Beau Biden Foundation aimed to combat child abuse by educating adults and children.

Hunter Biden

Hunter Biden is the second child and son of Joe and Neilia Biden. He was born on February 4, 1970, as Robert Hunter Biden and was involved in a car crash that killed his mother and younger sister. He attended Georgetown University for his Bachelor’s and went to Yale Law School. Biden worked as a lobbyist, co-founding the firm of Oldaker, Biden & Belair.

Hunter Biden has been open about his alcohol and drug addiction especially in his memoir Beautiful Things. He cites the unresolved trauma from the car crash and his brother’s death exacerbated his addiction. “There’s addiction in every family. I was in that darkness. I was in that tunnel—it’s a never-ending tunnel,” he told The New Yorker. “You don’t get rid of it. You figure out how to deal with it.”

Biden was married twice to Kathleen Buhle from 1993 to 2017. The couple has three daughters, Naomi, born in December 1993; Finnegan, born in September 1998; and Maisy, born in 2000. After the death of his brother, he was romantically involved with his widow, Hallie Olivere Biden. The two dated from 2016 to 2017. He is currently married to his second wife, Melissa Cohen.

In June 2024, Hunter Biden was convicted three felony charges related to the purchase of a revolver in 2018 when, prosecutors argued, the president’s son lied on a mandatory gun-purchase form by saying he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs. He is the first son of a sitting president to be criminally charged in court.

Naomi Biden

Naomi Christina “Amy” Biden is Joe and Neilia Biden’s only daughter and third child. She was born in 1971 and died in the 1972 car crash that killed her mother.

Ashley Biden

Ashley Biden is Joe Biden’s youngest daughter and only child with Jill Biden. She was born on June 8, 1981, and studied cultural anthropology at Tulane University. She worked as a social worker in the Delaware Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families.

She’s also been involved in fashion and founded Livelihood Inc., a “socially and ethically conscious apparel company,” where she teamed up with Gilt to sell a collection of hoodies with 100 percent of net proceeds donated to Livelihood’s community development initiatives.

In 2020, her diary was stolen and sold to Project Veritas. The diary contained “highly personal entries,” Ashley also put away “tax records, a digital storage card containing private family photographs, and a cellphone, among other things.”